Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
LUDWIG VON MISESThe real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers. They by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality.
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The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value.
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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.
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The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by governments.
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The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement.
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The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.
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They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.
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The truth is that the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody…It is not in the power of the government to make everybody more prosperous.
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True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money.
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Do not give in to evil, but proceed ever more boldly against it.
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The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
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Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism .
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The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
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Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success.
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The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
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Every socialist is a disguised dictator.
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